CORPORATE KEYNOTE SPEAKER | COURAGE & SPEAK-UP CULTURE
THE COURAGE TO SPEAK. THE CULTURE TO LISTEN.
Are your people afraid to speak up?
You can have all the policies in the world. But if your people don’t feel safe enough to speak up - or don’t believe they’ll be heard when they do - you’ve got a problem. I speak to organisations about courage, speaking up and what creates a genuine speak-up culture.
Suzi Dent is an international speaker, author, advocate and media Commentator whose extraordinary life story has inspired audiences around the world.
With more than four decades in television, media and entertainment, Suzi has lived many lives — award-winning hair and makeup artist, entrepreneur, author, Mrs Earth Australia, documentary contributor and powerful advocate for women’s voices.
Known internationally for her courage in speaking publicly about her experiences involving entertainer Rolf Harris, Suzi helped shine a light on justice, consent and the life-changing power of speaking up.
Today, Suzi speaks to audiences across Australia, the UK and beyond, sharing powerful lessons on courage, resilience, confidence, reinvention and finding your voice when it matters most.
Her story has reached millions worldwide through documentaries, television interviews, podcasts, print media and live events.
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Just because nobody’s saying
anything doesn’t mean nothing’s wrong.
We talk a lot about encouraging people to speak up. But what happens when someone does?
- Are they heard?
- Are they taken seriously?
- Does anything change?
And perhaps most importantly — what does everybody else watching learn from what happens next?
Because every response sends a message.
It can tell people:It’s safe to speak here.
Or it can tell them:Keep your head down and say nothing.
That’s why creating a genuine speak-up culture takes more than telling people to find their courage.
If we ask people to be courageous enough to speak, we have to create somewhere safe for that courage to land.
WHY AUDIENCES CONNECT WITH SUZI
Suzi doesn’t tell audiences what courage should look like. She tells them what it actually felt like.
Her presentations combine lived experience, humour and straight talking with a question every organisation should be asking:
What happens when somebody speaks up?
This isn’t theory. Suzi has lived it.
Recognise why people hesitate to speak
Understand what happens after they do
Recognise the signals leaders send
Understand the cost of silence
Create safer conversations
Build a stronger speak-up culture
The Timeline
MORE THAN 40 YEARS BEHIND THE SCENES — AND IN FRONT OF THE CAMERA
1983 – present
40+ Years in Film & TV
Mastering the art of visual storytelling behind the scenes for global production houses and celebrities.
Mrs Earth Australia
Representing resilience and environmental advocacy on a national stage at the age of 55.
Landmark Advocate
A key witness in a landmark legal case, turning personal trauma into public reform.
Present Day
The Voice For Millions
Keynote speaker and documentary feature star, reaching millions with a message of unapologetic confidence.
SIGNATURE KEYNOTES
THE RIPPLE EFFECT
The Courage to Speak. The Culture to Listen. )
One voice can create a ripple that changes the world.
At 23, I was a young make-up artist working in television when I was sexually assaulted at work.
I spoke up.
I spoke while it was happening, and I reported what had happened to my supervisor before I left the television station that day.
Years later, I spoke again.
That decision eventually took me halfway around the world to London, where I gave evidence in the Rolf Harris trial.
I’ve experienced what it means to speak when something isn’t right — and I’ve experienced what can happen afterwards.
That is why The Ripple Effect isn’t simply a keynote about finding your voice. It’s about something bigger.
What makes people speak up?
How do we respond when they do?
And what kind of culture are we creating for the next person who is deciding whether it’s safe to say something?
Through lived experience, storytelling and humour, I take audiences inside that conversation and challenge them to look differently at courage, silence, leadership and their own role in creating a genuine speak-up culture.
The courage to speak belongs to the individual. The culture to listen belongs to all of us.
WHY BOOK SUZI?
I don’t teach courage from a textbook. I’ve lived it.
I’ve spent more than four decades working across film, television, media and business.
I’ve been the young woman who spoke up.
I’ve been the witness who travelled across the world to give evidence.
I’ve stood in a courtroom and told my truth.
I’ve experienced the media attention, public scrutiny, opinions and trolling that can come after speaking publicly.
And today, my work has taken me into advocacy and education around safer, more respectful workplace cultures.
What I lived now has language around it:
Speak-up culture. Psychological safety. Power. Bystander behaviour. Workplace culture.
When I was actually living it, we didn’t have those words.
Now I use my experience to help organisations have conversations that matter.
This isn’t theory. Suzi has lived what happens when someone speaks up.
40+
YEARS EXPERIENCE
3
DOCUMENTARIES
50+
MAJOR FEATURES
40M+
AUDIENCE REACH
Voices Of Impact
In the words of others
IS YOUR ORGANISATION READY TO CREATE A CULTURE WHERE COURAGE HAS SOMEWHERE TO LAND?
We tell people to speak up. We tell them to be brave. But that’s only half of the conversation. What we do when they speak is what defines the culture.